Using information and communications technology in education has changed the learning process from the perspective of student, teacher, activity, and evaluation. This paper reports a design method to achieve the goal of the curriculum studies— optimum curriculum design, which means that the curriculum will be evolutionary with the learning technology. This paper focuses on“product”technologies ...

The average middle school child may very well know as much about technology as their parents. In fact, some may know much more. Today's students have grown up in an environment with incredibly easy access to the Internet, emaiJ, word processing, and almost any other technological innovation. With the advances in technology it is safe to assume that in the near future most jobs will require at l...

Where the role of instructor discourse has been the focus of much recent research on asynchronous online instruction, the anatomy of effective instructional discourse of foreign language educators has yet to be examined. Indeed, the majority of work in the area of foreign language and telecommunications has concentrated on student–student, student–peer interaction and the power through autonomy...

In this study, we compared our computer tutor (“TED” for Training in Experimental Design) to a teacher-guided control lesson also targeting experimental design but incorporating hands-on learning. Students in both groups showed significant gains in ability to design unconfounded experiments. TED instruction was significantly more efficient than the control lesson. When the teacher’s ratings of ...

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Writers have a limited number of cognitive resources to allocate to the task. Consequently, searching for keyboard letters restricts them from fully engaging in the writing process. High expectations for writing across all levels of education suggest the need for touch typing skills. This mixed methods study examined the beliefs and practices of elementary teachers related to teaching students ...

There are many open questions with respect to theory and empirical support for methods used in college teaching, especially when technology is incorporated into instruction. In this article, we report the results of a study of a multimedia-based instructional tool called Content Acquisition Podcasts (CAPs) that provides university instructors with a tool that is grounded in applied theory and h...

Web-based and Internet technologies are constantly being developed, evolving new ways of working, teaching, and learning for a broader range of professional and social groups. In a landscape of technology innovations, teacher professional development should try to capitalize on modern internet-based tools and services, better known as Web 2.0 and virtual worlds, in an effort to meet the increas...

BACKGROUND Recent data show that only 15% of Australian adolescents participate in adequate amounts of physical activity (PA) and those students from Asian and Middle-Eastern backgrounds in Grades 6-12 are significantly less active than their English-speaking background peers. Schools have recently been recognised as the most widely used and cost-effective setting for promoting PA among youth a...